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VOL. I. NO. 29.
RED SPRINGS, N.C., THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 22. 18J2,
H, W. TWNMKNn. Man
r r ' j.vnt oo electric locomotives
, j . i.'fric railway system, applica.
f fur whi;h have been filed since
': I, MS J, hive juit been iiiuei to
J -i t . . K lisoo.
p. f.; ire four times ai miny worJs ia
. as there are ia too Freici
. ! . . 't t philologist estimates that the
-f new word in our tongue
t . or. it the rate of one hundred aanu
Th rapid growth of the hsrut of so
r .' t j and temperance is, in the eatima-
,ri ( the Chicago lleral JK on of the
, . i " riitics of tin American railway
, . ., t!i) tin of ioloxtcnts becoming
, , ii I in r the exc.pU'n, altho ugh
, ,d to bo t!io rule in the rJnlih
h.(vi' . It win h sub-jot; t for co.nm?nt
ii K't.'.lisii rnl;v,iy puMicition recent
. t'i" .'' U rer employ c 1 in
i.i fi tin gra li of th! Oreit We.t
, I.i roil wcro not allow 1 to refresh
ii ! -I'lriti svoikii.j hours with
ft'ijiii.n stronger turn onmU water.
l!, V'.w York court? have just rcn-
i I i decision which, the Detroit r'reo
If I 'iin ves, will b3 of inestimable
vi' jif it shtll be accepted as a pre
in other State or even regarde 1
j . .i uly irinhc I ii4 lit of a warning. The
s i m ' -i Memorial Aaaociatiort having
i I to ( ci i t i'm at the World's
' t tin' I'i'f Mr. Hamilton Schuyler
i t v jit ill philanthropist," the fauiily
i . 1 lii" icia'.ion t' l':iist from it
I , t ii. Tic: iiiiix.i-ttiori perflating,
I ,'tiiy took tho mittrr luto court
! i'.c ;mociifio.i lin bi.'i'ri onjoiae 1
h i i irrjin out it- Robenu. The
; ! ii i of fho flfriiiou tint, f.imilj
m i iMvcin'M i tntitlfl ti con-ai'lcratiou
i. i I tin' r ly Ims tlrj rii;!it, aainit
.! ( unily j 'i. t ; f , to even io li n r, or
:A' i. in' :i lvt s'ich, to a tl'jceued.
fT-iiii'-i f ti; fniily.
i
'II - W'i-hiinjfii "tir maintain? that
! it "ti!eiii of th' f.'ntiirim hai
it. i i in-ii.i ti'ioii. I'lmn the tliwn
' Ii' -' "i :n in Inn trule 1 to ijct him-
' i i i wli if lit- nT. arron rivr,
.i. .ri, 1 1 n :iti-l .m i' ;rn. It n .1 ipiOt-
ri p'i nl ImmIimi mi l, rti re th in thnr, a
('i''i!i if ki!l. Without inein of
M t i j ml it !' 'l IIM'l Wo H ll'-VIT hn.V)
I. n i i v 1 1 1 I . A tie) d! t rivili. i
tr Hi I tin' s!i i'il' li of the people
n'l l tin' i r i If r f.niM of invention to
t iT"i : in i'ori iU for temple? an I pal
r ' , mi I t'f: !! of b;in of b ir lun
I r ir. ! of niii'Ti f, so in r ino If rn
ii'i"iM witi flier inTf in;i anl
1 i iif Ii iv cvc'itu illy, after a
I u" ' i. i ! ' i ' i i.i, 1 1 v tlojvt. J tlii- ftr i n-.T
i i ill i i.v iv. I'hi very earratioa
n.. ,1 i , . , ii t hT lt'innin, of the nil
til m o in linn ; in in' thin a local
l fit r fi loci! port, ml th I lit saw
-tii ;ir o - . ii i'iV'1 ilr.iw tho rir.it tnin
'' it '. f U of rhi ulmost uiTilib!e
i i f !ii- Iff ii wit i"i-e I in I ue 1'nitc 1
' i: . A r lui: to I'oor'i Manual
'In - v h. tlif riotf of t Tf ir 170,
' I in i fof tr u k or l i b' per cent, ol
i'm w rM't tot il withjuJy out- iith of
l, i r. .j . " p pu! tioii. Tln Talu o the
...N II 1 '. W 14 I . .'.(. I'.0., ()(.
I 1 1 ho .U i'on' ituit- the tlur I in iu-ttrf of
fie I tr.tr I Stiti'4. tht lir-t in I srcon l
I i i iwrii 'ilt iM' a:i I in nui'acturfi.
I tir-t Hf tin t t hit 4iiiiw the Troiiiitrf iii
th Vfloptm tit i f thv I't'.cr p-.rt of th
una u v'il !i 1 t'nt'ii v.
A W ihiu ;t -n r'irr"wiVin lnt ayi:
Tin- no if wul Invr plenty of work lur
inc tli-' viim, yrr, withut aiy ne
l iti-fi to 1 'iiul ii 1 hfioml ci.DiD.
I hr 'i'ii in I f r the minor uoi the
bror - ,.ii ont pn-i an 1 th- nickel
nt imif to krtp th. P.ii! 1 Iclp'iia
m ut li'w, uo'.withitan lin :hf cfoac
of nl. . jt ' o 'I il ,,f th'M.- plCvfl m
ti'iiily foithrptit for yeir. rler
'r thrm r intinuf t dJ.iif in ( r n the
Mth-ui mi!i tr''irk', ' n the mint at
I'.nla If'p'ni 14 unil'. to citca up with
the 01 l r. Tue c at 1 it eipiaiion of
b i-!iir4 of thf c jntry mk,4 th?
t'i b-1.1. m i ajrwin4 :ir for t'iM an 1
r form 111 'iey, in 1 wsll piob
a iy 11 r'juirc a more citoriiive coin
a,r at tl.c otlf.-r iniot. The ruia'.i
Niw Olva ii an. I Sia Kriacicj, a well
4 thit of I'.nla iclpltit, aru wor'iu1;
tirneitly tt rejoin the worn aubsi Jiarj
ilver w'uic'i u cirncl oa th? tretaury
b k, into 'j'jtiter a I Jioiei. There
: r.o iriitu I for the half Jo'Jar pieces,
an 1 thttc ire plenty of them iu the
lrtaury, b.,iiei the l'),OJ,OJ0 of
t'lttn w Inch it 1 propoie i to mac for
th- WV 1.14 Kir. The cjinac of ailrcr
tl -liar Ii;i4 at tt entirely ceaie I, oot wit h
tanJi the apciioa of co-rapuUory
uin'e iy the aitvcractof l-'J '(and ths
tUi ito 1 of Secretary Koter not1 to CtJ
tmm. the r.jiut;i! of $.', ,0JJ
month without ncceaaity. There ia a
'niari I for a certain tjuantity of silrer
ah y ar when the crop are mtrsi, ao-1
certi n mirin i4 a!a. r lire I at the
il trin4urif to tnl oi aioutl d-
t
t'.noili au I settle balances.
TURKS KIS.SE.
The pnr-t klaa
In tb world ia thia
The kia that a mother laya
On bT rhiM'a freah lips
A? he blithely tripa
To mf t the worl J md ita wa;
The w-t -t kiaa
Id the w.rl'1 m tbi
The ftrt long kiK of iti
Whn tirn u"t,
Antt th earth'a f'trg '
An K'ln 'lntpi from atoa.
TTi a'Mt kia
In the wi.rM ia thia
Th kiaa ffi iiiinfrini clff
..Whtn b-al n tfll
W- mnt nob frw-!l
Till the uawn -f th jii'lni"nt
- hi. aEo UiX
MYfVUNTWASUfNGTON
HY VIRi.lMl MIAZF.H BOTt.r.
My Aunt Wa-hinqton hal half lh"
rounlv at rVr ti t ; he knew ir, anil lot
not n whit of th vnntitje thereby. I
hal obrrvc it with prile, for nothing
at that time facapH my note, though 1
own with ruortifir ation that only the
Siin'ly before the time of whuh I peak
I hnfl rrietl aloifl in the (ieat mertini; at
the Court Ifouai, from having lost my
reI mornf i o hoe, by reason of a tout
man nittinc on my foot. 'ot that my
foot wn hurt, but that I feareil tho Iom
f my ah. whirh iM-injj n-!, wan very
pretty, though trulv a nug fit, prantl
moth'T anl my mai'l Jane miking much
nb in getting th in on in time. Hut
they were brought to mc from New York,
n urrrtt journey in thit day, meaning to
me the wholttf the outer world. I re
mmber well how my round cheeka
burned, though my tm'n were atill drop-
fting from th" lo of my lin ry, when my
ather lifted nie by one arm over the
bend of the people, the sent being ar
ranged in a r-emicircle one over the other,
and never pauid until he had deposited
me siMy in my own hiir nt home.
Aunt Washington had not gone to
meeting, pleading a h'nda he. though I
found her in the garden among the
sneet nlin.'im bel, laughing anl talk
ingwith llenry I.itle. He hurkedme
under the bin. w hen b" hatl heard my
tearful Morv, for my shoe had been left
behind, and I doubted tbnt my father
would trouble to fet h it; but Aunt
Washington hushed and gave m a
M ppeiuii?it from hi r porket. . She liked
my amnll frixolily, -be nvowed, aii'l le
( l ired me a thomugh wommi.
I liked not th" nppt-nring of Ifenry
I.ytle, by re-tn, jerbip!. if my granl
inothei's acr-ion. for she could not
abide hi presenir: piitirularly, as Aunt
Washinirtn touch-l hr lip at my t-u-l-den
appearing, anl Henrv Lytle matle a
ry faco. shrugging up his shoulder.
Aunt Washington the youngest
fhildof my grandmother arfl only sur
viving daughter, nnd was a pretty widow
of three years' ittmtling.
Now my gMiidmoth' r In Id peculiar
view in n g:rtl to w i'boi IhmxI. M-uring
out all prineiples with honest praitire,
that upn the return of a woman to her
f.ither'a h"ue, she having In-en wid
nwnl, she tbollld re.iIUe the t.ub. rvi'in e
' her forriMi 1 liildht'od, particularly
until five year of mourning should lo
pried; nnl lhtugh Aunt Washington
mis Hsesacd of a cos, little fortune in
her own right, from her husband, grand
mother ruled her jouget daughter with
a rtd of iron. My father. Wing mostly
iirnler tln same rt't, came in ftr bis
portion of couilifrship, anl though my
crniiilinother was a wonderfully charm
ing woman, he: was none the less a des
Mt in her ow n way.
Wc dawdled among the flowers until
high noon of this August Sunday, I free
as air and larcfoot. Aunt Washington
having suggested the advisability of re
ni'iving my remaining hoe, altogith'T
unrestrained in gramliiiother's absence,
i baing tin white and yellow butterflies
with my Sunday hat, at th eiiiisi of
the artificial wreath iion it. whe
et:ls w re wif nl 1 v shattered. Hut wh.t
dilTcreiice did it make, when the garden
a- full of th" living flowers
llenry I.ytle Invoked at his watch when,
at the tui n of the l ine, we aw the church
party appronching. ami, 4ikrning u to
:!.t
mice, caitl wmu tning uninteuiginie aroui
the morrow, fo,Md his tall head and
ki-sed lMth Aunt Washington anl m-,
mm h tt my atonishnent, for granl
m""ther was wont to deliver afvere dis
sertations ujxtn th promiscuous ovula
tion of the soxes, holding that kie
wire unholy thine, even ujx'n an unof
fending infant, but Aunt Wahineton
gaie me m ippertnio. which waa a sufti
cient hint as to my discretion. Whn
grandmother royal silk rustled in at th
Iroiit gate tgrsnlmothcr w aa more gra
citus of a Sunday 1 llenry I.ytle long
leg had girdled trie garden fence at the
rear for an instant, nnd he waa pone.
Monday was a great day at the "Kims,"
a "lay of clearing away the literal and
imaginary cobweWs that had gathered
over Sunday, that being the only day in
the calendar, excepting Christmas, where
in th" whrk and dust doth were not
used with mental and moral vieor.
rn that particular Monday gTmod
motl.er was ailmmoniil to attend a dying
fiietid, a friend if hrr own girlhood.
Now, grandmother N-lieviil there waa a
time for all thing, even a tim to dance,
which he afterwards proved, but in
pite of the tia of year vf as.-iation.
it wa very unreasonable in Martha to
take to dying of a Monday, sh averrel.
However, duty wa duty, anil as uchmy
grandmother never shirked it; m, with
out delav.the family carriage wa fetched,
am 1 with manr direction to the maid
and apevial admonition to Aunt Wah
irgton in regard to the quince preaertea,
now in a atate of preparation, with a
ruatle of ailk and a whiff of lavender,
grandmother was driven away, leaving
the houerhitld world to Aunt Washington
and to me.
My Meaa w to our rfspectiTe occupa
tiona for the morning are not very lear
at thia late day. I had an allotted daily
taak upon my aampler, into which at
tero grandmother n at 1 stuck a pin to
mark it limitation, and I remember
that my Aunt Washington wa unusually
buay.
My aampler was very exii pen ting and
xaj crtwaii uitrlad tinrnTCifnily. Th
lpt IIooor and Fhame from No
rendition Ruve." I hai gotten through
the basket of primr?ea with croaa-atitrh
hd into "Shame ' and now I waa alip
Jpiog my canvaa in a moat slonnly man
ner, wishing that I wa a boy or ."butter
fly or wmtthlog not required by grand
mothers or nature to work sampler,
"when my -nc were assailed by voicO
flom the kitchen, aa well aa the aroma
Of boiling quinee. My intuition toli
twe thit it waj Henry Lytle, an I had
tv time in satisfying that aenseby proof.
He wa standing by one aide of the bljf
twas kettle, and Aunt Washington on
the other, with a wooden apoon in her
iiand. They w ere arguing about some,
thing, and Aunt Washington looked half
laughing, half frightened.
Henry Lytle in my grandmother'
kitchen! - Alas! Alas! such indecorum
- and he htd dared, and Aunt Washing
ton had dared! oh! grandmother!
grandmother!
Hut he faid aomething more about
mi e, and chu klcd me under the chin
again, ar.d Aunt Washington sent me,
w ith exact particularity, to require of
Aunt Peggy, the housekeeper, eeren
Mit ks of cinnamon.
Oru e upon my mission, in spite of the.
dignity of my aeven year, I forgot to re
turn inm"diafey. It must have been an
hour or so latT, when, guiltily unbraided
by conscience, I gathered up my seven
cinnamon f-tiik. Th houe aemed
strangely quiet, and from the kitchen
came the alarmingly unplcan.mt odor of
burning sirup; I say alarming, for tho
escape of such an odor into my grand
mother's house was a positive catas
trophe. I ran as fast as my r hubby leg would
carry m". calling upon Aunt Washington,
but no Aunt Washington responded. The
contents of the big brass kettle were
burning at the bo'tom and boiling over.
I tiptoed on a chair and stirred it with
the wooden spoon, burning my fingers in
th operation, but I was too disturbed to
weep, and Wides no one was there to
comfort me. I fried to lift the seething
stuff; I might as well have tried to move
Hlack Mountain. Not a maid wa in sight
or hen ring. Aunt Teggy wai deaf, and
from my j "ition I might have shouted
until doomsday, for all that she could
hear.
If woe could have put out th fire the
preserves wmild have been saved; how
ever, I wnii'lered' about helplessly, still
holding ou to the wooden spoon, when I
.ii"d a bag of peppermint that Aunt
Washington had thoughtfully left upon
the kitchn table; the I grasped as my
only solaec in this time of trouble, and
never stooped until I w a in my own little
bed, heati and cars covered, still holding
fast to the pepermtnt..
I heard the maids return, then a stir
and n bustle. I knew that my own maid
was seeking for me. In the fear of my
grandmother's anger, I hail almost for
gotten the .absence of Aunt Washington.
Where was Aunt Washington? Where
was Henry Lvtle? I heard thenppronch
ing wheel-, signaling my grandmother's
return. I hcird the brewing of the
storm, culminating in the arrival of a
message which "trusted that the pre
serves were not spoiled, and legging
grandmother's pinion. Aunt Washing
ton had gone to marry llenry Lytle!"
"And wh re is France Ann? "demand
ed my grand mot'ier.
Pi eling nn self summoned. I descend
ed from my ne-t like a culprit, and amid
sobs, I related all I knew, even down to
the peppermints and seven cinnamon
stick.
Th" sun bail teased to shine on my
grandmother. h"us My father had
suddenly decided to make a trip to New
York, to I- gom- for a matter of rive or
six month, ami left tin alone in my
childish sorrow, after having vainly
promised to bring me more things than I
c cr could have dreamed of - thing to
tally uiisuitcd and inappropriate for a
hi!d of my tender years.
My grantbnother w as .jlrnt. but scrupu
lously 11.11 1 in th daily business of life,
an"! MTsistmtly refused to consider any
prcupjtted ii" 1 1 anres to lw mad" by Aunt
Washington and llenry Lytic in th" fu
ture. Said my grandmother. '"Serena
has made her own led, and she can lie
in it."
Son after my father's departure my
grandmother sent for Harriter tjuill.
Now Hirristr tjuill wa th" family at
torney, a hi father had been lefore him;
one n't the owerful triumvirate in great
old funilie. without whtse attendance
gr"at family occasions were null and
void.
S tl cake w ere brought and a pair of
cobwebby bottle, for service in my
grandmother's Imtidoir, a ceremonial al
ways pn ceiling important buv'na tran
sit tioiis
rpn hi departure I encountered Bar
rister tjuill ojn th piazza, whereupon
be pitted m on the head and called me
a irv clever ch'ld. taking unuua! notice
of me
Affairs wrre very quiet in my grand
rnother's h"Ue, but my grandmother be
came suddenly aware that I wa in need
of an education. a governess and
muic-mstr were provided for m.
njntalettes, were made a little more or
nate. and with all thi care I soon became
a most mi-erab! little creature.
One day. Jane, my maid, revealed the
raue of all my woo, she w curling
my hair for mv daily presence in my
grandmother's ilrawing-room (there were
visitor!, when, my hair loctining
in "m way entangled with th cane,
for it curled naturallv. I cried out.
Tji!" itai'l Jane, -'h.ain't you 'shame.
Mis Fram e. tr cry out lat k er baby,
when Ole Miss d-mc ot you up fur er
etle lady !" and she tweaked my hair
again, at whi h my tar continual to
flow. "When Ole" Miss done cut Mis
S'rena opt'n de will, lick de done cut
Marscr I.e af?d tnek yeu de heir!
Hain't you hame, when you oughter be
proud an' high"'
"What. Janer I cried, aghast. "Won't
grandmother have Aunt Washington for
her daughter ever any more."
"No." haid Jane. he done taken jou
in hr plate."
"Me!"
-Yr," said Jane, with a cautious
ihake of her finger. -an you oughter
have ritten ter your 'sition, Mia France.
ny do say, Si is Frank, aa how mis
S rena idat happy w id Ilrnry Lytle she
don't kecr."
"Where u mj Aunt Waihingtonr' I
demand ad.
rTai: I hain't got her; e)Ter ter JIT
Cousin Dorcas', said Jane, "but aon
uv u fum bereinain't ter e bet er tef
peak ter her. f Ol Misa sat o.H
"I won't hare her place, and I'll tell
irtandrhother a4'.M I cried, atamping rtt
toot. A was customary with me in tho
days, on a sudden rise of tempen "III
just tdl grandmother ao. so there t
"Dlter leave Ole Misa Tone, taid
Jane in aa awestruck tone. "Ef ahe
winter leavo yo all she got, tou can't
top hit.M
3Iy grandmother had disinherited my
Aunt Washington, a she had my Uncle
Leo, the year licfore I was bom. and
who hid never returned from France
fcincc that eventful jcTjod.
Time wore o!4 aud I with an uneasy
ronrirne wor, aa I declnod it, my bor
rowed dignity. My father returned and
loaded me with gifts until I skipjied
alout like a Itediieneil Inlian princess,
luit still I was aot happy, for I feared to
confide my troubles to my father without
my grandmother's advice.
At List we hard that thre wa another
Perena at the house of mv Cousin porcas,
t Serena. rose-lea-ed arj'l tiny.
It was only whispered, and I went to
led, fevered with interest aqd silent cu
riosity, for I ihred not mention the news
to my grandmother.
She had chinked of late, was sometimes
absent and dreamy, as she sat at her net
ting, giving tie s'icin flffr skein to un
tangle, only tv msh them again. My
grandmother was strangely out of torts;
my governess did not pleae her: my mu
sic master elicited no interest, in fact, she
was fain to put.b little man out of th
hou.-e altogether, and even my voice was
harsh in my graiid mother's ears.
Perhaps she w is thinking of her distant
son, perhaps of my beautiful Aunt Wash
ington, perhaps of the little baby she had
not even seen. Ilowbeit, my grandmother
wa tuthViently fut of humor to eatechie
me on gt ogr.iphr, and finding me wofully
unresponsive sh lioxed my ears aad sent
me from the :xm.
Now, the sting of mortification was
heavjer than t'ie weight of my grand
mother's hand, and gulping a something
that held th nervous semblance of a
Iiiece of crusty corn bread in the throat,
wandered tearfully among the elm. I
would d something. Child as I wa, I
felt that 1 was occupying the position of
an interloper, and such a position was
unliearnblo. I had my own place to fill,
and could not take Aunt Washington's,
no matter how much my grandmother
wished it. Under her cold exterior I
knew that she was griering, that she
never Would le, happy again in the ab
sence of her child, though she mjght die
in her pride without a word.
Beyond the erthiog elms, at sight of
me, my father's borae, a l4ooded animal,
whinnied from his tether, eager to be
gone. I pattc i1 his sen.dtire flank that
quivered beneath my touch. He was
saddled and hi idled, and yet my father
had not come. Suddenly a great thought
trembled at my beat! and leaped into my
pulses. Tin house of my cousin Dorcas
was only six mil'- away. I kneiv every
inch of the road, every brajte, every
plum thit Vet. I would heal the family
breach; I would yield my false position;
I would go and fetch Aunt Washington.
No one was about. (Juick a thought,
though steathilv. I climlKt'e into the sad
dle, prepared for oik e to do mv masters
j credit; ami. rode slowly through the
heart of the town, lest I should attract
undue attention. Th-i'ig'.i people turned
once and again to look nt m bare head
and streaming hair, for I had forgotten
my bonnet, I was not molested.
All alone, without even JcofTry to fol
low - after m arly a year of curbing, such
bli. .nut h freedom! At the edge of the
witod I gave into n brisk ennter, to
which the spirited Nero was not averse.
How it would hive worried JeofTry to
ke. p abre.i-t of that UjMn his ambling
cob! Sut h delirious air, such delicious
freedom, with my long curl whipping
my back like so many loosened bridle
reins. Almost in my enjoyment I had for
gotten my niisj.ii, when right in the
middle of the road, only a few a c
ahead, a bare I 'ged ur hin thtew up hi
hat. I ir -lined, but too late, for once
again tin- dirk thing whirled, and. with
a vi'ioiis yell, the little rascal disap-
I tea red. Nero reins! suddenly upon his
launches, then, wheeling like a thing
possessed. t"Hik ba k through the tan
gled woo l. Tttti frightened to think, I
dropped the pin and flattened myself
against hi nrrk, holding with all my
childish strength to the rising and falling
man". On. on. through the brake and
tangle, scr.-.ping me almot from my seat,
the frighten! animal sped; on, on now
back to the edge of the town. With
closed eyes I henrd th shouts of the
men. th" screnm of the wmn to "save
tbe little child:' I thought of my
father, my gr indnother. Aunt Washing
ton, th" littl" baby I hid never known.
All now would go on without me; they
would never know ho-r 1 tried to make
them a!l hspjy. They would never
know that it wa not a childish prank
- and I would have die I. in vain, in
tain.
I mut hive lecn dreaming. I thought
I wa dead, but I w.4 in my own little
bed. whose mus'ai ur'ain looked like
snow in the s ll'g'it S..ra-bndy aat at
a tible. netting, ii I t.r wcr" tears in
the cie thit lool'-d no and again upon
mv led Wa th s 1,11 grandmother
that tender pur. h- s thi? lay uon brow
and lip? ic -tir- 1. I cl.wd my eve
again: perhi, I "I" suH. but on mv
cheek I f It ' j h kiss. -, rain as I bad
nerrr knnn in !i ray i-rphane-l life te
fore. m"-rra'ir,"d csrrse, sending ten
der thrills to wake that rmrt of my young
heart that woYd have Nen my mother".
For many '..iy I ba!aa"d life and
death with f-v.-r. b.-uis. aud a broken
arm. holding ften through the weary
night grantlai"'her" ha in mine, and
then they cam fi'-m far to ak for me
and shame i. w;h a fir tale of my
bravery. "T- wur.derful, they aaitl.
for Tuh a chil'l a I to it o firmly and
tj long.
Ooe day Ua eii trt gone aod I
could cmp tlut like amall ghost from
chtir to cou"h.froru io.k h to c hair again,
my grandmother had tt !'! n a tiay
table right Isffore ny r hair, and on it
Jeoflry placet! the ee,j c akev a&d the
wine. 1 brc.itl-'-d th v. ry atmo-pherecf
ccniiKiy. a ruy grintbn ii-r t-o a -t
i-r " from my wan self. When. I Lad
drink aad choked acd. ball ia lear, had
BlMiled a cake, my grandmother leaned
Upon her arm and looked at me.
"Wances," she said, in tones both grare
and alow, speaking for the first time of
my escapade, "it waa a naughty thing of
you to take your father's horse, a wild
and vicious thing he hardly dares to
ride; it was a wicked thing to steal away
alone without permission, though you
must have had your reasons, child, for
you are not a fool. What were they,
Frances; why did you go?' The keen
gray eyes were fixed upon my own hard,
inquisitive, uncompromising now; I must
have surely dreamed they ever looked in
love. I hung my head and whispered:
"To fttih Aunt Washington home." .
"And what affair was it of yours
to intermeddle?" demanded my grand
mother. With all my weakness, thia wa snore
than I could lar. I fell upon my knees
and clasped my grandmother's skirts
with my unhurt arm. "Bet-ause.' I
sobbed, "I don't want Aunt Washing
ton's, place; I don't want to be a fine
lady, a Jane say I must ; I don't want
any lessons, any music, anything. Take
her bark, and the little baby, too, grand
motherthe little baby that is jut the
same to you a I am Jane said ao.
Please let us all be happy, and let me be
good again."
My grandmothr drew herself away
and looked at me. I must have been a
very pitiful sijjht, with my bandaged arm
and great wide eye, for my grandmother
turned and left the room without a word.
All the morning I felt that I wa under a
cloud ; but about noon my grandmother
sent again for Barrister Quills, and over
the seed cakes and the wine I was made
a party to the proceedings.
I have not a very clear recollection as
to what pascd, perttaftsMua to ray year,
or to the wine to which I w as unaccus
tomed, but that night, as grandmother
tucked me in my crib and put out the
light (grandmother always pcrformd
that office for mc when there were no
guests in the drawing-room) 'he lent
over me and whispered as gently ns her
softened humor bade: "My Frances, she
shall conie." .
4
There were great preparations at the
"Elms" for th- reception of Mr, llenry
Lytle, my giandmothcr irresistibly slur
ring the male portion in her mention of
it. She never did anvthin by halve
(perhaps excepting this), and such bak
ing ana larding was unknown since my
own dear mother's marriage. The big
folks from far and near were bidden to a
toast, the like of w hich waa the supcrla
tire of every comparison for many a year.
In some way or other I was to figure as
a heroine, though my small head was un
able to grap the reaon why. But it
was all a good as a plav, of which Aunt
Washington told me, where all the jwo
pic were gay and marched off and on a
stage.
I was pranked out in a brocaded satin
petticoat, and had my hair dressed most
inappropriate to my vears; but Aunt
Wahingtork or Aunt Lytle, a I should
properly call her, would have it so, and
Mistress Ljtle's word was not to be
questioned. My arm, provokingly alow
to mend, was lound in one of llenry
Ly tie's lcst 'neckcrthiefs. My grand
mother was gorgeous a a fJrand I);ichess,"
and happier, too, 'ti fair to wager, than
many another liesidc a throne. To her
granddaughter, her black satin train
gave more the aroma of dignity than can
ever again die with woman.
Aunt Washington. Iieside her lover
husband, wore the bridal robes sh" had
not worn in her haty Might, now with
her mother's own permission, and amid
the blessing of us all.
Oh. how they danced! I looked utn.n
them from my little chair, pushed close
lieside my grandmother's own. "Sir
Hoger ile Cover'.ey " woke tho echoes of
the distant wt. My grandmother led
out with Barrister Quills; Aunt Wash
ington followed with my father; twenty,
thirty, forty couple ah! 110, I could not
roii 1. 1 them flashing their color likf
changeable rainlniws against the vibtant
wail of violin. On, on. through the
hour, w ith the pause of a tea-cup or the
tipping of a gla. On, on, with the
violins, the mellow voice that told my
happy childish heart that eace colild
brooil again ujon th " Kims." On, on,
through heavy lids that would but close,
I see them yet through all the ilarker
days that came and ped and on the
topmost stair to wave a kiss at me. her
white robes, pinions of my childish
dreama. the rose un withering upon hr
breast, the lct-loved of my kindred, my
Aunt Washington.
Speed of the Fly.
"The sped of a fly i something that I
have alwais had great cunity to
know," said J. A. Biscomb, of Little
Hock, Ark., at the Lindll. - Evidently
it flight is faster than that of any 01 her
winged creature, Tor it i no unoronvn
thing for the tiny inet to dash ita life
out against a wall or tree, so great is its
momentum. I had a aplendid opportu
nitr a few weeks ag to witness an e thi
bitlon of the fly'a speed, by whieb it
could be approximately measured. I
rode out of fjttle Rock" airly one morn
ing over tbe Little Buck and Memphis
Railroad. My buioe nceit-ated my
octupviog a seat in the engineer's cab.
Theafrwas chill and crisp, and a we
passed through a sLrttch of swamp I
noticed that great swarm of little grten
die that abound in Arkansas swamp
were attract.! to th W-otnotive by it
beat. They appeared alraoat froxen.
When we toppsd for a minute they flut
tered around the am'-k-tck and tbe
boiler, and soon seamed to get thawed
out. Wb-a we started again tby Sew
along clo to the engine to ke-p warm,
ftoincr on a down crrade of 4i mile in
lengths we ran a mile a minute. Tbe flics 1
easilj kept up with u,a:id, in fact, really
weot fatr than m trascb-d, for every
little while they would fJy away frwa tha
engine aod then cocne lsc k to us. I am
confident their -ed waa greater than m
mile a minute, and I will venture the
isaertioo that they didn't reach the
limit."
MoT of the
countrv come
opium smuggled Into this
through tbe regioo around
Puget Sound,
neighbor bond
I lie ani ivwiii n ut
oiTer great natural advan-
tag- for ainr.gj
If I iir-r tmm
. -1 - '..-
supplemental
region of tha
icy lite ccxning 10 mia
shrewdest amugglert ti
. PECK iilDDLHD.
. j
1
A DiMicnox or tu xiw toa laskh
viaioj KKrOBT O. Till
ETTICT OF TBK TAJUfr OX LABOf
AKD WAOCa. I
Labor Commissioner Peck, f New
York, baring mad an alleged inveati
gaUon of "tbe effect of the UrifX on
wages, " has issued a one-sided report in
whkh he claims that r-rotection is a boon
and tbe McKinley law a blessing. Mr.
J. Schoenhof, a well known writer on the
tariff, thus riddles Peek's peculiar re
port in the colomni of the New York
World :
Mr. Peck'a totala'show a net increa
in wages for lt31 over IS90 of 16,377,
925, and a net increase in products in
this State duriog the same n;riod of
131,315,130. )
I will not inquire, into the rcleraacy of
the statement to the McKinley bill or any
other tariff meuurej If the iocrcue doc 1
not show more than tae' ordinary ratio,
the report falls ahort of ita purpoa. 80
Ion i do data ire furnisbe 1, u by lh
United States Census, covering all in
dustrial occupations, the inference ia not
excluded that selections are made with
a view to covering a certain end in tiew.
Many very important induttriea are left
out. Cotton, woolens and ether tex
tiles, Iron and strcj proJu:ts, etc., are
not mentioned at all. Did they not
show a sufficient increase ia wage to
parade them as glorious e ism pies of
tariff benefits! Yet these are the prin
cipal industries which bare received
tariff favors. 2
I will show, iojround figures, their
rates of increase, toder the beneficent
protectire tariff, frnm the census of 1970
to 18S0 (in thousands)?
raobiXT.
In
a rx-
i,
1170
1V
Cotton goods '.Itl.tTJ
Hata, caps and ma
terials 1. 10, 7(0
ll.tr
Iron aod steel and
manufactures M.OuO 27.0) SOW
Here we hare the principal industries
which can be classed pre-eminently as
protected Industrie! suffering a doclioe
within one brief decade of 133,000,000
from ISJ-.OOO.OOO in 1670 to 5,0O0,.
000 in 16S0. In tbe cruder Iron and
teel products and manufactures New
York State, in 1$70, contributed over
15 per cent, to the total product of the
United States. In 180 tbe percentage
of the State of New York . bad gone
down to 8 per cent, in tbe total of these
industrial products. Under tbe blight
ing influence of tbo tax on the raw ma
terial the indualries falling under these
headings have become traof erred from
the Democratic State to the Republican
State of Pennsylvania.
It is not known to the writer that a
perceptible increase has tiken place in
the succeeding decade, which is to he
covered by the eipected returns of the
eleventh census. All reports bare so
farttndel to advertise further decline
in these industries in this State. If proof
were required further than that of the
generally known condition of these in
dustries in New York State, the omis
sion of Mr. Peck to inclose them in hU
tabulations would bare furnished it.
Cotton goods have not Increased
cither, as is well known. Their manu
facture becomes more and more conccn
trated in certain farored localities from
natural causes, the same as in England.
In all wool goods the decline Is general
and alor.e due to tbe tariff on raw wool.
The decline in the consumption of wool
in proportion to tho growth of the popu
lation, and the corresponding increase
in shoddy and wool substitutes to make
up tbe deficiency, give full evidence of
tbe benefits of a tariff on raw materials.
Tbe increase iu shoddy goods, of course,
would make up for tbe difference. But
the silence of Mr. Peck doea not seem to
warrant the assumption that increased
proaperity came to the workiog people
in 1891 in execae, of that enjoyel ia
1690, against the general depression la
woollens everywhere else, a fact ao well
known to everybody at all familiar with
the trade. The three branches cited
auffered a decline la wage paid out and
in tbe number of work people employed,
according to tbe census tables, as fol
io wa (in thousands)
w aots axd a a os
jnu. -1-
? rC
Wm Ru4l Wir
Cotton fJs.. 1 w.Hi fm
Hats. cap, ate... V7J -.IM
Totals HUM at.! -.V,4
The in lustriei suffered a decline to
tbe extent of H.7S0.O0O paid leai ia
wageeand 501 fewer worsioj people
employed. But what Is of further aod
greater lijnificaoce U thit tbe rat of
wage, as shown here, has gone down to
tbe extent shown here.
Tbe average per band employed is aa
f&Uows, I
I ir
Cotton fia.... T-"7
Hati aad car etc
trtwaalltMl notoct. hii
" 1JV ts
in ii
Thia is indeeJ a showing whlca woulJ
give the death-knell to aaj high-tariff
sentiment; still I rampant ia the greats
m.nf.rtirin State of the Ualoa were
any facts wanted to prove tbe absariitj I
of tbe claims usually set iona.
I wii' not draw aa? loferences froti
thia nor generabxe oa the iscts furthtt
than to show tbe positions of certa a in 1
dustriee which oaeht to have ate My ia J
tripled io product aal in wsjts pan
out under tbe benign influence of tbe
tariff, but base,!on the contrary, lufferel
the heaviest decline.
That these facta have been ignored by
Democratic offkial authority of the
Stale and spurious facta substitute 1 to
bolster op the policy of th opposition
party is tbe only thing wbica gives a
somewba serious tone to tbe absurdity
of tbe publication.
A cotoparifon of tbe prod net, of wege
aad of bands .employed in industries
fartfcett remove. I frj-n the infta;."! re
ferred to snol oa the oa'rary tb
fcllowtof iaeajei:
c -
( tN
w" wnaa
' Ktr!tJVt.sow t j
.it tn.000 (f
U.X74 41.IW rs
Wm Kma
I TWhm4( I
4,tAi ix,n
lVi.f Mono
t7.s:i w,0(0
Coctsaai shove.. ,.I7U
Ciothtn , ;n
Women's dottalai;. . A.KSJ
rrri
lVoUa4 tkocs....l,o
t iothmr ai.lXJ
Vorooc!otVnr.. IJttJ
It has been demonstrated aufficienUj
by couparisoos made here aaJ abroad
that labor in boots aad shoes is cheaper
than in Europe. Ia clothing a tari2 la
ineffective. Fashion and taste alone for
bl I importations of ready-made clothing
an 1 give a clear field to the hone maost
fscturer, thoujb bis materials, by tariff
taxation, are so much higher than tha
foreign clothing manufacturer has to paj
that tbe protection by the' tariff on
clothing ia quite neutralised. Ia other
industries where tariff protection il
equally ineffective similsr showing can
be made. In clothing, tbe least pro
tected article, the increase is highest:
75 per cent, ia proluct, 125 per cent. In
ws;rs aod 150 per cent, ia the number
of hsnJf. Women 1 clothing hi rise
in the product from four aod a half
million! to over twenty: millions. The
new census will show a hearitr 1 0 crease
yet. The items suffice to show the
damning evidence of fact Ignored by
Mr. Peck. Having pointed tbem out I
will n riturn to th facta adduoed by
him to support bis theory.
The increase in product! U net dawn ,
as Ml, 000,000. Tbe locreaie from 1370
to 1M0 was f 300,000,000. Conaidertxgj
the price kflttioni of all com mod Ilia,
as compared with 1H0, aod the decline
in such important Industries noted aborsV
the increase of 1RS0 over 1S70 ibowi for
New York fully f 1 00,000,000, or M
percent. On tbe same basis of progree
sion the l,l'),000,000 of 1M0 ought
to have grown to 1,K00, 000,000 la
193. Tbe years of tbe end of tbe de
cade, however, must show tbe greatest
ratio of increase, partly on acconnt of the
increase of 25 per cent, in tbe population
of tho State ao J partly 00 account of tbe
ceneral trade activity ruling la iWf. -190
and 1H91 against tbe great ttagna-
tion ruling and spreediog in Intensity
from 1M3 to J.M7. The rati) of la
rrews ought from th coaaid rations to
be nearer a hundred millions than seventy
millions, which would be Iha'areraf, of
the decade. If M,r. Peck is not able U
show more thao thirty-one million! of
increase he and h's theory sUad 001
d tinned by hi own figures.
Reed ea -Ixtravaxaace." -
Ex-Ciar Reed Is something of
humorist ia Lis wiy aad be baa aeldota
been core humorous than be U now la
accusing the Democratic Houa ef "et
travagaoce," because with a Kepubllcea'
Senate and a Republican President 1
against it it could not repeal the ugar(
bounty act, tbe steamship subsidy act,
and such like acts pasted by the Reed
Congress, with tbe deliberate Intention'
of Increasing the expenditure of tbe
(lovernment and making the increase '
permanent.
Tbe Ree 1 Congress and tbe flarrUoa
administration have run tbe annual ei
jeoe for penaiona alone up to tliOA
000,000, ao that with this and 1 10, 000 X
000 a year for sugar bounties we hart a
permanent expense of 1150,000,000 a
year altogether aside from what era
properly tbe ordinary expenses of gor
eroment.
Under the Disability Pension bill aad
other pension acts now lo operstion tbe
annual expense for pensions will increase
for aome years to come. It will r:h at
least 1150,000,000 a year, aod the only
chance tbe country has of getting rid of
it ii by outliving th) pensioners. Tbe
sugar bounty will be repealed as soon as
the Democrat elect a President and a
majority of the Senate. Until then it rt
mains with the other permanent cbargee
imposed ou tbe country by the most
scandalous Coogreaa tbe country ever
bad.
With a Democratic Sen at tbe pee
maneot charges can be greatly leJuced.
When Mr. Cleveland ia inaugurated he
will certainly renew tbe practice of that
strict economy which characttriaed bU
first administration and resulted In tbe
surplus which Hsrriso baa dissipated.
Io the meantime Harrison 11 rasponai
ble before tbe couotry for the Increased
expense of hit redioil administration. Ue
ia costing the couotry a round hundred
million a year more than Arthur tost It,
Where ia the Republican who will ny
thst IlsrrUon is worth this much more
for the couotry f It may be that we axe
to have another lUpuMieae as Preai
dect in the future. If ao, let u gt one
wLo to' le and is worth mote for tbe
money. 'St. Louis Repute.
riasasa Destroy! Disease Grrau.
After prolonged reaeereb ani iiperi'
rr.eoU ia Pasteur laboritory, M. Cham,
bet land Is reported to bav come to the
conclusion that 00 living gcn of daaa
tan reist th ntiptle poet of eeoee
of ciooamon for more than a few hours.
It destroys micrabei as effectively, If
notes rapidly, as cxroetve sublimate.
Even the sceat of It la fatal, ani M.
ChamUrland holdi that a decoctloa of
ciaoemoa ought to N Uken fraelf by
persons living io plac affct.l by
typhoid or cholera. There la nothlog
new lo all thia. Ia the oidewt kaowa
medical prtcipUoo for lafectiou dia
ease Coaoaaoo waa a promiaealjIafTe.
dieot, aalit was la great rejuest danag
tbe r4ayues of Loodia. Tbeeo
reason for doubting that the piciaoa
of those ewrbes day wera as fsmilUr
with SU medical properties a srjthl'
vlr. Xew York lleraH.
A BobTaer Kail Carrier.
TALLiua.e. Ft -T. B fnU m
aneited her thi rnoralaa th tharg
of rebbiog tbe tuail o U reut to Cr -t.belte,
00 the Gnlf cent, for which be
r the contract. - Po!Cc Ipeeto'
P. D. Peer worked tbe case up and took
I'.rnli to pruA-le today, where be was
1 ilnl. iu deftult of flOOO bail. There
i.a Uen losee of mail ma tet oa this
routt forthifUt ttty Jtirf,